The surname Thistlewood was first found in Yorkshire where they held a family seat from very ancient times, before and after the Norman Conquest in 1066, when that county included the northern part of Lancashire and Cumberland, about the 11th century.
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Early History of the Thistlewood family
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Thistlewood Spelling Variations
Spelling variations of this family name include: Thistlethwaite, Thistlethwayte and others.
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Early Notables of the Thistlewood family
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Thistlewood migration to Australia
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Emigration to Australia followed the First Fleets of convicts, tradespeople and early settlers. Early immigrants include:
Thistlewood Settlers in Australia in the 19th Century
Mr. Edward Samuel Thistlewood, English convict who was convicted in Kent, England for 15 years, transported aboard the "Barossa" on 8th December 1839, arriving in New South Wales, Australia1
Contemporary Notables of the name Thistlewood (post 1700)
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Napoleon Bonaparte Thistlewood (1837-1915), American Republican politician, Mayor of Cairo, Illinois, 1879-83, 1897-1901; U.S. Representative from Illinois 25th District, 1908-13 2
Arthur Thistlewood (1770-1820), English conspirator, born at Tupholme, about twelve miles from Lincoln; he was 'firmly persuaded that the first duty of a patriot was to massacre the government and overturn all existing institutions’; he was hanged, with four other conspirators, in front of the debtor's door, Newgate, on 1 May 1820 3
Thistlewood migration to Australia 
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